Daily Wordlist 24-Oct-09

	24-Oct-09 Daily Wordlist stingy [ STIN-jee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not ready to give or spend 2. not generous 3. a very little or a very small amount   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was a stingy person who preferred to hoard rather than spend his money.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The extraordinary success of this disc not only led her to renegotiate the stingy contract offered to her by pianist Clarence Williams, but to become the best-selling black artist of the 1920s. BBC, 100 Jazz Profiles   stint [ stint ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the interval of time spent in doing something 2. the amount of work allotted 3. a limit or constraint 4. (tr. v.) to limit 5. (intr. v.) to survive on a very small amount   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After a two-year stint as a clown the circus manager promoted him to juggler.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After stints at the St Charles and North Middlesex hospitals, in 1944 Wild joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in the rank of captain, serving as a venereologist, treating hundreds of British and American soldiers. The telegraph, John Wild, 21 September 2009   stipple [ STIP-uh'l ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to fleck 2. (tr. v.) to draw, engrave, or paint using dots or short strokes 3. (n.) a technique of using dots or short strokes for drawing, engraving, or painting   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The children stippled the branches of the Christmas tree with synthetic snow.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His thick, ragged, graying eyebrows were stippled with sawdust, as was his mustache. CNN, 'The Night Inspector', Frederick Busch, 26 January 2000   stipulate [ STIP-yuh'-leyt ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to make a condition for an agreement 2. (intr. v.) to make a particular demand in an agreement   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The arrogant child stipulated that he would play in the team provided they made him the captain.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The race rules stipulate that only cars with a 1.2 litre engine or less can take part. BBC, To Mongolia - in a Skoda, Linda Serck, 25 September 2009   striated [ STRAHY-ey-tid ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) marked with stripes 2. (tr. v.) to be marked with stripes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When we saw the animal with the striated pattern in the foliage we imagined that it might be some exotic creature, but it was just a zebra.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The striated caracara is a cross between a falcon and a hawk, and is indigenous to the Falkland Islands. BBC, Park searches for brainiest birds, 22 August 2008   Spelled Pronunciation Key Stress marks: [ CAPS ] indicates the primary stressed syllable, as in newspaper [NOOZ-pey-per ] and information [ in-fer-MEY-shuh' n ] CONSONANTS [b] boy, baby, rob [d] do, ladder, bed [f] food, offer, safe [g] get, bigger, dog [h] happy, ahead [j] jump, budget, age [k] can, speaker, stick [l] let, follow, still [m] make, summer, time [n] no, dinner, thin [ng] singer, think, long [p] put, apple, cup [r] run, marry, far, store [s] sit, city, passing, face [sh] she, station, push [t] top, better, cat [ch] church, watching, nature, witch [th] thirsty, nothing, math [th'] this, mother, breathe [v] very, seven, love [w] wear, away [hw] where, somewhat [y] yes, onion [z] zoo, easy, buzz [zh] measure, television, beige   VOWELS [a] apple, can, hat [ey] aid, hate, day [ah] arm, father, aha [air] air, careful, wear [aw] all, or, talk, lost, saw [e] ever, head, get [ee] eat, see, need [eer] ear, hero, beer [er] teacher, afterward, murderer [i] it, big, finishes [ahy] I, ice, hide, deny [o] odd, hot, woffle [oh] owe, road, below [oo] ooze, food, soup, sue [oo'] good, book, put [oi] oil, choice, toy [ou] out, loud, how [uh] up, mother, mud [uh'] about, animal, problem, circus [ur] early, bird, stirring   FOREIGN SOUNDS [a*] Fr. ami [kh*] Scot. loch, Ger. ach or ich [œ] Fr. feu, Ger. schön [r*] Fr. au revoir, Yiddish rebbe [uh*] Fr. oeuvre [y*] Fr. tu, Ger. über   SAMPLE NASALIZED VOWELS [an*] Fr. bien [ahn*] Fr. croissant [awn*] Fr. bon [œn*] Fr. parfum [in*] Port. Principe